Is SQL Server IaaS or PaaS?

Is SQL Server PaaS or SaaS?

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine that handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement.

Is SQL IaaS or PaaS?

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) hosted in Azure that falls into the industry category of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Best for modern cloud applications that want to use the latest stable SQL Server features and have time constraints in development and marketing.

Is SQL database IaaS?

Azure SQL Database is built on standardized hardware and software that is owned, hosted, and maintained by Microsoft. SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine (VM) falls into the industry category Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and allows you to run SQL Server inside a virtual machine in the cloud.

Is Microsoft SQL Server SaaS?

We can argue that Azure SQL Database offers more than other PaaS databases offer, and because of that we should think of it as SaaS. However, Azure SQL offers a good amount of management options that are not available on SaaS.